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Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...account for this – compared with same period in previous year reported crime actually rose by 17%, 44% of locals felt safer, but 84% would not enter certain areas – a rise. Critics, eg Save the Children in Scotland, argue the scheme is a violation of young people's rights and question its success. Government support for scheme. Strathclyde chief constable recognized...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...accountability. It was what can we do together to help these students? I think that when teachers feel success with their English learners, they want more. It’s like a piece of candy. When you are successful with some of your harder students to teach, it feels good when you’re successful. So if you can reach out and find people to help you be successful, you’ll...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
All my own work: exploring academic integrity Badge icon
Education & Development

All my own work: exploring academic integrity

...account for each player’s item. [Mini shopping trolley filled with a piee of card which reads ‘Ideas’.] Similarly, when you write for academic purposes, you are not only permitted but often encouraged to draw upon the works of others. For example, you may have come across the quote attributed to Isaac Newton in 1675, ‘If I have seen further it is by standing on...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...accounts of cholera from his mother who had survived the Sligo epidemic. Worse was to come. the Irish famine of 1845-52 or The Great Hunger’ was a cataclysm in Irish history, leading to the death of over one million people and the emigration of up to 20% of the population. Stories spread of dark events - the dead unburied, cannibalism, and even corpses with mouths...
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Article 45 mins
Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...accounts. Answer The steam engine is clearly an iconic model. It is a different size from the original, but is the same shape and probably uses many of the same materials. A graphical model. The concept of a market, as used by advocates of ‘the free market’ is a mental model. However, some economists have also created mathematical models of markets, which they claim...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
Money & Business

Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

...account. Perhaps the most visible version of this situation was indicated by the suffragettes or blacks. Being ‘excluded’ from civil, political, and social rights for much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, both suffragettes and black gained the rights that they didn’t have by claiming equality as well as difference. We may well remember that...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The caring manager in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The caring manager in health and social care

...accounts of how Angelique approached the situation to support Lakshmi. Activity 5 Finding a way forward Timing: Allow about 45 minutes Part A Listen to the following audio clip, where Angelique talks about how she thought of a possible way to help Lakshmi. Angelique I recognised that Lakshmi was struggling with her workload and that she didn’t seem to be as organised as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...account of logical thinking known as Boolean algebra, in his book Laws of Thought (1854). This work profoundly influenced some of the pioneers of artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, advances in engineering technology made it possible for Boole's contemporary, Charles Babbage (1791–1871), to design, and try to build, the first recognisable computers: The Difference...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs